[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(24-11-2010 11:33 PM)Byatil Wrote:  ...I really cannot fathom quite how you pick up on these tiny details.

I think you'll find that is the tragedy of the obsessive's brain!! I'd like to say I should find something worthwhile to obsess about, but I'm quite happy obsessing about this

(24-11-2010 11:33 PM)Byatil Wrote:  He no longer has an identity outside of his job, because in Russia, all that matters is what he knows regarding his work with MI5. Through his time in prison, he has simply become a file of information.

That is a smart observation. What lends it an even more bitter quality is that he must surely have become aware, during eight years of imprisonment, that the content of the file was becoming less and less relevant with every day that passed. His value even as a commodity was being reduced every day he was in that place.